India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s3.16

c7.s3.16

Pāṇini names two other rivers, Bhidya and Uddhya (*Bhidy-ōddhyau nade*, III. 1. 115). Uddhya is the same as Ujh flowing through Jasrota district and falling into the Rāvī (*Imperial Gazetteer of India*, Vol. XV, p. 73; located to the north-west of Mādhopur on the Rāvī, p. 107). On Pāṇini II.4.7 the *Kāśikā* illustrating the compound names of two rivers cites the example *Uddhy-Erāvatī*, that is Uddhya and Irāvatī, the former of which we must consider as a tributary of the latter on the analogy of *Gaṅgā-Śoṇam*, another example of the same rule, and of the counter-example *Gaṅgā-Yamune*. Bhidya may be identified with a river named Baī, rising in Jammu about 15 miles to the west of Ujh, and flowing into the Rāvī in the Gurdaspur district. The names Uddhya and Bhidya suggest that they dried up in summer but flowed in torrents in the rains, as indicated by Kālidāsa who describes their brisk and wayward movements as those of lusty youths like Rāma and Lakshamaṇa (*Raghuvaṁśa*, XI.8).